ralfy review 977 Extras – Navigating whisky.

Episode 508 ‘Kurayoshi & Kanosuke’

Welcome to a Japanese episode of the show, in which I’ll be taking a look at two of the new wave of Japanese distilleries, those being Kurayoshi and Kanosuke in Episode 508. The Value Of Whisky Is Entirely A Product Of The Interaction We Have With It! Filmed in The Study Nottingham.

Tasting Notes

Featuring Kurayoshi Distillery The Tottori Blend 43%

Kurayoshi Distillery The Tottori Blend ‘Bourbon Barrel’ 43%

Kurayoshi Distillery The Matsui Single Malt ‘Sakura Cask’ 48%

Kurayoshi Distillery The Matsui Single Malt ‘Mizunara Cask’ 48%

Kanosuke Limited Edition 2022 Release 59%

Thompson Brothers Kanosuke 2018 (4 year old) 58%

ralfy review 977 – Glen Scotia Double Cask Rum Finish @46%vol:

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 489: Ledaig 25 Year Old 1995 Valinch & Mallet

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, tries an unpeated Ledaig! He tasted this Ledaig for the first time at a tasting in Ghent, and really liked all but one bottle he tasted that night, but this one stood head and shoulders above the rest for him. This Ledaig was bottled by Valinch & Mallet in 2020 in their famous series The Lost Drams (which surprised Mark a bit, because Ledaig is still being made). It was distilled in 1995 and matured for a quarter of a century.

https://youtu.be/_bsPbMBFy90

Turntable Whiskies Track 01: Joy. Invention. Discovery. 46%

https://youtu.be/gZ7Wi6h9RGo

Welcome to a rather interesting way to approach blended whisky, and when I say ‘interesting’ I’m talking about large transparencies, fun malts and grain, mad cask selections, cool visuals, and a price point which is pretty accessible when it comes to modern blended styles.

This is Turntable Blending House, and it is quite an exciting way to show off the component parts of blends and how they go into influencing whatever they’re trying to make. This is Track 01: Joy. Discovery. Invention. Bottled at 46%, natural colour and un-chill filtered, it is made up of Linkwood, Knockdhu, Girvan and Strathclyde whiskies, all from a host of much more interesting, or possibly just talked about barrel selections.

ralfy review 976 Extras – Keeping a ‘malt’ log book

ralfy review 976 – Kilkerran 16yo @46%vol:

Welcome to this week’s episode of the show in which I’ll be taking a look at some releases from Henstone Distillery in Shropshire and the Pocketful of Stones Distillery in Cornwall.

https://youtu.be/gH3kpWRYB-4

Mark’s Whisky Ramblings 488: GlenAllachie 10 Year Old 2009 Sauternes Barrel

Mark Dermul, Belgian whiskyblogger, goes to the Speyside. Before 2017, hardly anyone spoke about Glenallachie, but since Billy Walker took over in 2017, he has put this Speyside distillery on the map. Now it has become GlenAllachie, with a capital A in the middle. This malt was put in the barrel for the duration, but it was Billy who, after 10 years of maturation on a Sauternes wine barrel, found it ready to bottle at cask strength.

https://youtu.be/gjIwdFarTQo

 Bunnahabhain Feis Ile 2023 Canasta Cask, 51.2%

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Canasta! Welcome, everyone, I’m here to talk to you about the first Feis Ile bottle that I’ve been able to taste, Bunnahabhain Canasta cask at 51.2% ABV.

What is Canasta? A blending of the Palomino grape and the Pedro Ximinez grape varities, the former producing a classically off-dry sherry, the latter producing a ridiculously sweet, rich sherry that is the equivalent of alcoholic diabetes.

Bunnahabhain has matured their spirit in this sherry type and have produced this cocoa powder and orange oil soaked spirit, with all of those classic, salty, sweet Bunnahabhain smells and tastes.